Writing
Ottessa Moshfegh
Born
1981-05-20 (45)
Place of birth
Boston, MA
Known for
Writing
Credits
5 titles
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.
Known for
6.5A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
Causeway
2022
5.8During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Eileen
2023
Sisters Clothilde, Ophile, and Bettine live in seclusion by the sea. However, their relationship begins to crumble when a man named Paris falls in love with one of them, unleashing a spiral of jealousy, sabotage, and madness.
Three Incestuous Sisters
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A woman living in New York City gradually escalates her use of prescription medications in an attempt to sleep for an entire year.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Behind the camera
6.5A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
Causeway
2022
5.8During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Eileen
2023
5.8During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Eileen
2023
Sisters Clothilde, Ophile, and Bettine live in seclusion by the sea. However, their relationship begins to crumble when a man named Paris falls in love with one of them, unleashing a spiral of jealousy, sabotage, and madness.
Three Incestuous Sisters
—
A woman living in New York City gradually escalates her use of prescription medications in an attempt to sleep for an entire year.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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